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Authorities at the Internal Revenue Service after promising to speed up processing on long-in-limbo tax-exempt-status applications of conservative groups is reversing course and doubling down on their demands for additional documentation.
The Washington Times has the scoop:
More jarringly, the IRS then publicly released one of the sets of questions it sent to the Texas Patriots Tea Party — a move the group’s lawyer says puts secret taxpayer return information, supposed to be protected, out in the public.
Tax experts say the IRS may be on safe legal ground, since the filing was made as part of a court case, and that’s one of the few narrow ...

Disgraced IRS executive Lois Lerner, who resigned after it came to light she was the driving force behind the agency’s targeting of Americans for their political beliefs, may have illegally handed over more than a million pages of Americans’ confidential tax returns.
National Review has the scoop:
Recently obtained documents raise new questions about Lois Lerner’s role in sending confidential tax returns to the Justice Department. It is likely the largest unauthorized disclosure of tax-return information in history: the transfer of some 1.25 million pages of confidential tax returns from the IRS to the Department of Justice in October of ...

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) Wednesday challenged liberal members of Congress – staked out in the House Chamber for a so-called gun-control “sit in” – who demanded representatives in the wake of the Orlando terror attack vote on gun-control legislation that would tighten background checks for gun buyers – a measure, says Gohmert, that’s beside the point.
“We are talking about radical Islam. Radical Islam killed these people!” Rep. Gohmert is heard saying to his liberal colleagues in Periscope footage filmed during the 16-hour demonstration.
The legislation House liberals wanted a vote on would block those on the “no-fly” and ...

Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 6/12/16
CALENDAR:
The House will return on Tuesday, June 7, and remain in session through Friday, June 10.
The Senate will return on Monday, June 6, and stay in session through Friday, June 10.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR.
The House was in recess last week. But the week before they left for the Memorial Day recess – excuse me, “District Work Period” – was chock full of fireworks, even though the House only voted on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday of that week.
The House came back to work on Monday, May 23, and moved to take up no fewer than 30 bills on the Suspens...

CALENDAR:
The House will return on Tuesday, June 7, and remain in session through Friday, June 10.
The Senate will return on Monday, June 6, and stay in session through Friday, June 10.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House was in recess last week. But the week before they left for the Memorial Day recess – excuse me, “District Work Period” – was chock full of fireworks, even though the House only voted on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday of that week.
The House came back to work on Monday, May 23, and moved to take up no fewer than 30 bills on the Suspension Calendar. Though most of them were the standard fare ...

CALENDAR:
The House comes back into session on Monday, May 23, and will be in session through Thursday, with last votes expected no later than 3 PM. Then the House will take the following week off for the Memorial Day District Work Period, and return on Tuesday, June 7.
The Senate will return to session on Monday, May 23, with the first vote at 5:30 on the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act of 2016, and will be in session through Friday, at which point the Senate will join the House for a one-week District Work Period, and return on Monday, June 6.
LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR:
The House came back to work on Monday, and took up 10 bills ...

A federal court last week ordered the IRS to hand over agency spreadsheets of the groups the IRS is targeting – this after the agency had been stonewalling, arguing the spreadsheets are protected under U.S. code intended to maintain confidentiality of taxpayers’ tax returns. Those at the Las Vegas Review-Journal are crying “foul” and demanding the agency hand over the documents.
Read the editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
The IRS hiding behind taxpayer privacy concerns is ridiculous, and the Sixth Circuit should be applauded for its ruling. These conservative groups in question don’t mind if their information becomes ...

Hello, CPAC!
You know, the President of the United States last addressed this gathering eight years ago.
Do the math – it was a different president then.
As he sat in the Oval Office, preparing for that speech, he came across a phrase in the draft that confused him.
So he asked, “What is this movement you keep talking about in the speech?”
The speechwriter, stunned, responded.
“Well, the CONSERVATIVE movement,” he answered. “You know, the one that started back in the sixties, when conservative groups first took root.”
That apparently didn’t sit well with the President. “Let me tell you something,” he said. ...

Hackers this year were able to access the Internal Revenue Service’s “Get Transcript” program – which houses taxpayer history online – and steal taxpayers’ identities.
WOWKTV has the story:
Not even Virginia based tax attorney, Wayne Zell, was protected from hackers who he says stole his identity.
"Somebody was trying to claim a refund using my social security number and I knew something was wrong," said Zell.
The IRS's data dump is the latest in a series of disclosures.
Americans go through enough just to file their taxes – add to that the targeting scandal Americans face at the hands of the agency and the ...

On July 29th both Tea Party Patriots CEO and Co-Founder Jenny Beth Martin, and Tea Party Patriots legal counsel Cleta Mitchell appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on oversight, agency action, federal rights and federal courts to give testimony on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups. Below is the video, and text of the testimony.
You can see our complete timeline of Tea Party Patriots issues with IRS targeting here: http://www.teapartypatriots.org/irs-timeline/
September Update
During the hearing on July 29, Senator Whitehouse made several false statements to or about Tea Party Patriots. We want to set the record ...